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Nancy Lee is reserving an airline ticket from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. She has
to make a lot of choices.
Travel Agent: Good morning. Can I help you?
Nancy: Yes, I’d like to reserve a seat for a flight to Hong Kong.
Agent: Hong Kong? Would that be a round-trip ticket or one-way?
Nancy: Round-trip, Please.
Agent: And for what date?
Nancy: The eighteenth of this month, if possible.
Agent: Friday, the eighteenth? What about the return date? Do you have a fixed
date in mind, or do you want an open ticket?
Nancy: I have to return on the 30th. Fixed.
Agent: Non-stop? There are some cheaper flights via Canada, Japan or Korea.
Nancy: Definitely non-stop.
Agent: What class?
Nancy: Coach. I can’t afford the others!
Agent: OK. What time of day do you want to depart?
Nancy: What’s available?
Agent: Well, both Cathay Pacific flights are late departures, 11:45 p.m. and
1:40a.m.,so you could sleep. It’s a fifteen-hour flight. United leaves in the
morning at 11:30 a.m. and it’s a daytime flight.
Nancy: Mm, I have a United frequent flyer card, but I’ll take the Cathay Pacific
11:45 one.
Agent: OK. If you’ll bear with me, I’ll check availability.
Yes, that’s fine. Do you have a seating preference?
Nancy: Window. How much is that going to be?
Agent: Two thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars, please.
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Flight
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Departure time
Flying time
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Class
Seating preference
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one-way or round-trip
fixed return date or open ticket
morning, afternoon, evening
overnight or daytime
connecting flight or non-stop
first, business or coach
aisle, middle, window, extra leg-room